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PAGE TWO MAROON AND GOLD FYiday, October 18, 196J JMarooii And Gold Dedicated to the be«t mtere*t of Eton Collfiie and iU studeoti and (acuity, the Maroon and Gold is published bl-weekly during the college year with the excepticn of holiday periods In cooperation with the Joumaliim program. Enl4!red a» -i-cond clas^ matter at the Pott Office at Elon College, N. C., under the Act of March 8, 1879. Uelivered by mail. *1 50 per college year, 75 cent* the •emrster. EUITORIAI. BOAKD Melvin Shreve* Kditor-in-Chief William Whittenton Assintant Editor Thoma* Corbitt .. . .. . Sport* Editor D«-etz Welch . . .. . Girl* Sports H Held . . AlmnJ Editor Luther N Byrd Faculty Advisor Jack Lambeth Staff I’hotographer TKCIINK AL STAFF P. N. Thompson .. Linotype Operator Carl • »«cn- Linotype Operator Ki-nni'th Harper Prcs.s Operator KKPOKTORIAI. STAFF Howard Andrew Don Miller Ji.c !!■ rdcish John Minnt Mac Bowman John Nichols Gordon Cox Hugh O'Hara J..mfs Dailey Wayne Pruitt pi j ■ Dod.wn .. Jerry Rowe Hunter Dula . Herbert Siner Shirliy Foski'tt Lamar Smith Milton Gro^e Jerry Tillman Cecil Gwaltney . Carol Tragescr Charles Harris .... Lee Vaughn Marty Hogenson Terry Vlning Patricia McAbee Bobby West George Woolen FRIDAY. OCTOBBEH 18, 19«3 ■ COLLEGE SOCIETY An iateresting discussion of student life and colleite society in general appeared recently in a publication of the National Student Association. An excerpt from the ducussion folloW!>: The rootlessness of college society make the incongrous phases of college life d.i- | ficult. The student is detached from his family, his home town, so far a^> he has one. hi» accustomed interests and associations, and IS held thus in a kind of social su!>- pension while the educational remodeliiig goes on. We cannot say that this state of social suspension is greater than it was six cen turies ago, but the consequences in terms of modern education are greater. After four years of this kind of detachment the stu dent is released in a rite called commence ment. It is assumed that he will take rout again perhaps in his home town, but more likely in V>me other place more appropriate to his new educated status. Thus on entering college the student mus‘. be born anew as it were. He must cross the River Jordan. The time is not to look back, but to cast off the garments of his past and go with a new vision and a dif ferent accent into the better world. This is all very well in iU way. It rc- peaU in terms of new objectives the old monastic conception of the college. Some teachers still look down with distaste ou the common work a day places and pattern-; of life and on the language of the land about them. But in spite of tliese theories of cultural rebirth and purification in college the stu dent ha.s a way of brintiing with Into that ■ better " world some of the vaniUc.s a:id urgencies of his past. He brings much more rarely the mature controls, tin- responsi bility and balance, if any. of his home life Because college society at his level is economically subsidized and limited to one age group, because it has neither ilie sociai discipline nor the responsibilities of life ii, a mature community, the student slips into a pattern of play and adolescent rebellion that seems to him suited to the situation It u rootless. It Is Immature. Sometimes it 1* morally corrupt, snobbish, a loafer s par adise. This is not surprising. The situation that he enters is sheltered and withdrawn. It is largely a play world made that way by the artifice of his campus environment It Is M to s^ak' a world of planned juvenility The student has few functional and opera tional relationships with the world outside It is juvenile because It is rootless and functionless. It is Juvenile furthermore be cause the college does little more moraUy iMn try to extend a parental kind of auth ority over people who no longer are chU- dr«. ft offers the student neither mature and responsible freedom nor. on the other hand, the obligations and sacrifice of miL- ‘ary or other discipline The college so ciety has few operaUonal relationships eith- " with the life from which the student come, or with the world of mature events and obligations into which he presumably will go after graduation. And because he does little that is significant he learns lit tle that U tignifleant. The campus. Indeed, is less a prepaaration for responsible liviog than an idylic retreat from It. a view from the oak By MFLVIN SIIREVES During the course of the year. I would like to brinp, before the readers of the Ma roon a.id Golil events and activities going on in variou.'i colleges and universities across ii„ iMii.,ii 1 will attempt to do this in ho|>es of ('nli;4htcning the readers on what these fhool.K are doing for comparison with Elon'.s programs Kor instance, a University of Utah commit tee h.!- m"’de reconnmiendations based upon (hr belief ih.it the “fraternities and sorori ties at the University are an important part of the I college' community, that they make ■,.ihsl,-'nlinl contribution to the educational cxnoriencps of students, and that specific kind- of actions need be taken by the fac ulty. administration, .students, parents, and alumni if the potential contribution of fr.i- •rnit t- and sororities is to be realized.” The committee's report recommended that; ;\ fontinuing Advisory Committee on fratern- II and sororiiiFs be approved by the Presi dent representing students, alumni, and fac ulty. A closer working relationship be developed Ix-tween the University and fraternities in re gard to their financial operations and that greater alumni participation in the financial affairs of chapters be encouraged where needed. In a*lition to a renewed emphasis on schol arship. Interfraternity (’ouncil. Pan-Hellenic, indiiidual fraternities and .sororities, and Uni versity personnel work for a special empha- fi.s on programs and activities which would be culturally and esthetically enriching for the fraternity or sorority member, exploit ing more fully the fraternity's potential role as a cultural agent in the lives of members. The President of the Board of Regents es tablish a committee to study legal aspects of fraternities and .sororities being hou.sed on the University campus, site location, site de velopment. types of housing, method.s of fin ancing 'including donations from fraternity alumni', and the establi.shment of a time table for construction in order to determine the conditions under which fraternities and sororities can move on campus. F\irther consideration be made by Inter- fraternity Council. Pan-Hellenic, and the Dean of StiKlents office of inactive membership as related to finances, leadership, group unity, and personal hard.ship, and that they develop a guide for inactive membership .status for the guidance of and adoption, if d-*sired, by individual chapters. Further ea.st in Rockford. Illinois. Rock ford College has announced a new student contract system which guarantees the sign er that his tuition will not be increa.sed during his four years in college. President John A. Howard said about the program. "In this era of rising general costs, the cost of operating a college is increasing especially rapidly. One major reason, a na tional .shortage of qualified college profes- .sors. is bringing about a swift rise in fac ulty .salaries to a level commen.siirate with profe.ssional training. “To maintain its academic strength. Rock ford College will, in the years ahead, surely n-od to r lise its tuition and fees. The De gree Plan is offered as a service to stu dents and parents who find it increasingly difficult to budget for four years of college .'tudy." Dr. Howard .stated. Under the new optional plan beginning this vear. a .student or his parents contracts for the remaining years of tuition at the cur rent rate. A slightly higher amount is paid the first year and les.ser amounts each suc ceeding year, so that the average charge is the current tuition rate. Students who do not choose the Degree Plan will simply pay each year those charges fixed in advance by the Board of Trustees, as is now done at Elon. A new student this year at Rockford under the Degree Plan will pay $1,150 the first year: $1,050 the second year: $950 the third year; and $850 the fourth year. The total cost will be $4,000 or an average of $1,000 a year ... the present rate. Actually, the only way that a student will lose by signing the contract is if he does not continue after his first, second or third year. Apparently Rockford is counting on this additional income as the national av erage for dropouts during the four years of college Is between 25‘v and 33'? of the en tering Freshman class. Dr. Howard doesn't say anything about students who might have to return for a fifth year. At Elon we don't hear to much about aud iting courses, but at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania, they have introduced a new system of classroom auditinf' wjhich encour ages students to broaden and enrich their course of studies and to earn extra credits. Under the system, any student in good standing who carries at least 16 hours of (Coatfnaed Da Page Foar) MUST P»l IIJ)L\(; EKECTKDON ¥AA>\ CAMPUS One of the classic pictures from EJon's past is pullei from the files and used once again as a reminder that | ^■.lon I; obsprvlnE: its “Diamond Anniversary" this year. The picture above is one of the few and perhaps the nlv (inf i.n lining of the first buildings to be erected on the Elon College campus seventy-five years ago. rii • struct"'- - was the Administration Building or Main Building, sometimes referred to as the “Ad Building" b.nck in the G=y \ineties. The three-story structure stood approximately on the same site as the present A1 ;mr.nce 3' ilJing, which if now the center of the Elon campus. The original building, on which construc- ;inn w.-is started on May 7, 1889 and which was ready for use in 1890, was destroyed by fire on January 23, 1923. (^ani[)iis Construf*tio!i Was Begun In 1889 As Ellin Colhge progresses furth- r into Its “Di.'imr.nd .\nnivers-ii-..- Year." with plans maturing for an earlv start on a caaital funds cam paign to provide for expansion and improvement of the college and its program, it is interesting to recall 1,-i.st progress of this Con“rc'’r.fion.il ’hristian school. One of thos’ past events, quite fitting to recall at this time, is the construction of Elon's first building fully seventy-five years ago. The| General Assembly of North Caro lina had chartered the college on March II. 1889. and the founders of, the college started actual work al most at once. The ground was broken for the first building on the Elon campus on May 7. 1889. and the first brick was laid on May 20th that year as workmen pushed ahead with the college’s first administration build ing. a structure which is pictured at the top of this page. That first brick was laid with ap propriate ceremonies by Lizzie Jane Long, young daughter of Dr. Wil liam S. Long, who became the first president of the new college. The corner stone was laid on July 18. 1889 by the Masonic Order. Brick work was by John W. Long. First Building Described A 'le.;crii)tion of the "Main Build- 1Bette' known as the "Admin- str:il.on Building," was given by —esidont Long in a report to the Con-.ention in 1891. and his de.scrip- 'ion is of interest: "The biiildinq i' three stories high '■^1 feet long, and 57 feet from front 0 rear, with an octagonal front 25 f.et in diameter, running up 104 feet. The outside is of pre.ssed brick and prestnts an imposing appear- :nce. On the first floor are 13 re citation and lecture rooms; and on the second floor a chapel 71x56 feet, wliich can be made 29 feet longer bv means of folding doors when ad ditional room is needed: a read ing room, an office and five music rooms: on the third floor are two society halls, a library, a museum :^nd six dormitories ( for male stu- Jents': on the top of the tower is an observatory commanding an ex- tensi\e view. "The hallways are 12 feet wide, affording ample room to pass through the building. The chapel is entered by two broad stairways, making it of ea.sy access, and af fording ample means of escape in case of danger. Every room has a fireplace and a separate ilue for a tovc. should it be at anv lime de sirable to use stoves. T'.e chapel and society halls are pro ided with stoves. In the basement are t’A’o -ooms for furnaces in c'S" it should hereafter determined heit the 'uilding by hot air or toam: and one room under the tower for flow ers and evergreens. “Some of the rooms are 16 feet 'liph: others 14 feet hit;h: all well lighted and ventilate 1 The windows are large and provided with weights so they can be raised and lowered w'ith ease. Transoms are over inside' doors. It is hoped thit other advan-] tages and conveniences mav be add-| ed .soon in the wa” of electric lights. | etc., thus making Elon College thej joy and pride of our peopl ■, a ^ great center of influence, a bless-; ing to humanity and a glory to God.” I East Dormitorv was constructed I about the same time as the “Main Building”. It provided housing for young women and for .somo faculty families. It has been reported to us that the total cost of construction of these two buildings was approximate ly $8,000, the total value of build ings and grounds being approxi- I mately $30,000. Now Hear This Perhaps the most important thing a Liberal Arts College should offer its students is a well rounded edu cation. By this I mean constant ex posure to all forms of the Arts and Sciences, resulting in a deeper ap preciation of our cultural heritage Are we being deprived of such a well rounded education, and the answer is yes. Now you might ask your.self w-ho is divesting us of .such an education? I would answer we the students are at fault, and we are receiving only a small fraction of the education we should receive. We leave school w-ith a piece of parchment that states we are grad uates of a liberal arts college and have received a liberal arts educa tion. People will congratulate us. Parents will be proud, but we will feel a little guilty for only we will know how* shallow our education has been. How many times has a science major asked. “How come I have to study History when I will never u.se it?” Or how many times has a Music major said.” How is the study of Anatomy or Geology go ing to help me?" How many tiaies have vrt the students asked these very same questions. Well, it is about time for an answer. ^4 After the Korean police action, the United States Government made By SY HALL an investigation to find why our men were physically and morally defeated in Korea. Why did our prisoners of war sit in their camps and offer only menial resistance?? Why did some soldiers become trai tors? Why did some kill, yes I said kill their own buddies, and last but not least why did some choose the road to communism and forsake our way of life? These were very important ques tions and answers had to be found quickly. The communists stated af ter the Korean police action that our soldiers were the easiest to brainwash, because there was noth ing to wash. Our men had no con cept of democracy. They really did not know why they were fighting. A great number had never heard of a communist so out of curiosity they listened. These well trained commies had no trouble disillusion ing our soldiers. Our men listened and were content to sit out the war.' In one prisoner of war camp there j were ten communist soldiers for | every 1000 .\merican prisoners, and not one man escaped. j These soldiers were me and you. •Many had gone to college and most had gone through a good part of high school, all could read and write. I ask you what is happening to us? How many of us read newspapers? How many of us listen to the spee ches of worldly and important men. and how many of us will vote when we get the chance? Vt U If Elon were a communist prison camp in the middle of Korea, we would probably do nothing but sit and listen. Students we are a ter rible element and a danger to our country. How can we stop it? The answer is not so simple, but there is a starting point here at Elon. Why should we destroy our formltive years, these are years when our search for knowledge should be at its pinacle. These should be years of curiosity and .self improvement We should not be ready for spec ialization, instead we should insist on exposure to the arts and sciences. After we investigate and find out what is going on in the world, then and only then can a scientist stay in his laboratory and pianist remain at his piano. Lets not be shallow. We have the most wonderful coun try there is and we are in a posi- to make it better. So let us all get thirsty and quench our thirst with a liberal and weU rounded education. what about this? By BILL WHITTENTON While looking for ray column in the pas* issue of this newspaper, 1 slipped up and actually read a few lines of the column acioss the page. I refer to that of our eiiteemed editor, the brainy boy from Grea!. er Bloxom, Va., Melvin Shreves. Naturally, being as human as most of tiie slightly less than human people I know. 1 felt compelled to read my column be- lore actually going so far as to comply'o a paragraph of another's work. Feeling thusly, with no more effort than a co:,- vulsive twitch of the eyeballs (actually there are only two), I found myself star ing at my own, although pictureless col umn. I knew it was mine, because it had my name above it. This astounding feat of per ctption of the obvious was the result of long months of study under a little-known, and in truth non-existent, descendant of the lamous and equally non-existent English sleuth,, Split-Level Holmes. How'ever, let us not ramble about, uo slur intended, but rather, let us return to the rather important topic under discu.- sion—that is, my column. After reading through it once, I found that it was com pletely as I had written it, including the rather clever attention-getting device of having one line printed upside down. And so, happy and content, I was certain and sure that my efforts would be rewarded with a firm offer of a position as an ed itorial writer for the New York Times. This has not, as yet, happened. But, I digress. Upon returning to the column to which I previously referred, that is that of Mr. Shreves, I found that he was wrathfully upset over the problem of student parkmg in college parking facilities. So as neither to alarm or excite any of you. 1 repeat his statement that he refers to the daylight parking problem, '‘not to be confused with its midnight counterpart.” It seems apparent that most colleges and universities in the country are beginning to experience rather serious problems con cerning this matter. It is also noteworthy that several studies have noted a definite and predictable relationship between the giacles of students and car ownership. It seems that those students who own cars tend to make lower grades than those who do not when all other circumstances are fairly equal. Since there is also a problem In many of our colleges and universities concerning students who made grades which are less than highly desirable, per haps a compound solution to this dual prob lem offers itself. Why not set up a system that restricts student car ownership, and. at the san,e time, encourages a greater effort toward > academic success for the student? Per- haps such a system would prohibit fresh men from owning cars and allow only those sophomores with a 2.0 or better average 0 own cars. Perhaps any junior or senior wou d be allowed to have car privileges. believe that such a system would reduce the parking problem, if not eliminate i'. and It would also serve as an added aca demic incentive. ♦ * ♦ ♦ While in the Student Government offices e other day, I talked with our studem body president, Wally Sawyer. After he gave me a sketch of the operations of our f'’'' ‘his year, I fell s ould give it a little coverage hen i any students do not realize that the Studen Government Association is their association, and that it needs and depends atp" efforts of many student to oper- ® officers of our Student Govern . often, we hope, busily engaged dent betterment of stu- blit th ^ Mature Acorn College, too hiis^ quite rarely, if indeed ever, esteri *** ^ student who is inter- ernment ^ ^“"‘^‘lons of his student gov- fact president stressed the the bL last year, c policy of our student govern- is one of keeping the door open to studen'!'^^”^ ^ government, and they require many --kers. There is always something for an '"terested student to do. Gov and drop by the Student Government offices some afternoon and sse f« yourself. Think of the„, „ot as the of- sti H . Officials, but rather as the shn offices. You really shjid come by, for after all, having paid tainl " sovernmeat fee, you are cer- yy entitled to help supervise it's being Ipent.